 | Some Like it Hip Hop     9 May 2013 I didn't realise that I had stumbled into the opening night encore of La Traviata at La Scala in Milan, until I realised I hadn't. This was most definitely Holborn, and I was sitting in the stalls o.... More... |
 | Passion Play     8 May 2013 Sacred music and secular love: it's a potent combination in Peter Nichols' raw and rasping 1981 adultery play that comes across in this lacerating revival by David Leveaux as a bitter, twi.... More... |
 | The Play that Goes Wrong      7 May 2013 There's nothing wrong with The Play that Goes Wrong, which has transferred to Trafalgar Studios following its run at the Old Red Lion. This is effortless slapstick that Keaton and Chaplin would have.... More... |
 | Charlie and Lola’s Extremely New Play    7 May 2013 There have been so many advances in the use of puppetry and music in mainstream theatre recently that it's slightly disappointing to find the dear little Polka Theatre still using cut-out cartoons.... More... |
 | Die Zauberflöte     5 May 2013 A very British ‘Flute’ graces the stage for phase two of the Royal Opera’s latest revival. All but a handful of the named principals are home-grown singers, surely a first in r.... More... |
 | The Tempest (Globe)    3 May 2013 Jessie Buckley as Miranda & Roger Allam as Prospero (Photo: Marc Brenner) How reluctant is Prospero to give up his power? He talks of abjuring his magic to embrace his former position but how easily .... More... |
 | Merrily We Roll Along      2 May 2013 At the Menier last November we marvelled merely at Maria Friedman’s directing debut with this poignant, heart-felt and wondrously witty musical by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, a 1981 re-w.... More... |
 | La bohème     1 May 2013 ENO have opened their summer season in style with a newly-minted, endearing and engrossing revival of Jonathan Miller’s staging of La bohème. .... More... |
 | Fräulein Julie    1 May 2013 You could write a book about performances of Miss Julie, probably in recent years the most adapted classic of the modern repertoire, and Katie Mitchell's meticulous, slow-moving new version for the .... More... |
 | Desperately Seeking the Exit    1 May 2013 Peter Michael Marino shows that self-deprecation is the height of humour in this one-man-band show about how his West End musical staging of the cult-but-corny 80s film Desperately Seeking Susan using.... More... |